Assessment of physicians' awareness and knowledge of familial hypercholesterolemia in Saudi Arabia: Is there a gap?

BACKGROUND:The scarcity of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) cases reported in Saudi Arabia might be indicative of a lack of awareness of this common genetic disease among physicians. OBJECTIVE:To assess physicians' awareness, practice, and knowledge of FH in Saudi Arabia. METHODS:This is a cr...

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Main Authors: Mohammed Ali Batais, Turky H Almigbal, Aref A Bin Abdulhak, Hani B Altaradi, Khalid F AlHabib
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5560711?pdf=render